Ryan Ferguson is Innocent
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Ryan's parents and Kathleen appear on the Today Show Watch
"The Mystery on Halloween Night" the Dateline episode will air this Friday, August 5th, at 9pm/8c. Watch the preview
We need your help in freeing Ryan Ferguson. Please write to Attorney General Chris Koster - attorney.general@ago.mo.gov - or Governor Jay Nixon - http://governor.mo.gov/contact/ - and express your views.
And Ryan loves to receive mail, so if you'd like to write to him, his address is:Ryan Ferguson
#1137593
Jefferson City Correctional Center
8200 No More Victims
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Statement from Ryan Ferguson:
I
really just wanted to say that today is a sad day, because the justice
system has failed not only my family and I, but the Heitholts and the
community. It has failed because they're sending an innocent man to
jail. Because they're letting a horrible person run free, without a
care. They don't have to worry about the police looking for them. I
can't understand that. I don't see how Crane can live with himself with
that.
But some day the truth will come out and everyone will see that I am innocent, and I will be free. And that will be a great day, because on that day the justice system will finally have done justice.
Ryan Ferguson
12/5/2005
Statement from Attorney Kathleen Zellner:
Ryan is the twelfth person my law firm has represented who is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. The other eleven men are now free as Ryan will be soon.
Last week, I visited the Boone County Courthouse. I could not help but notice an inscription on the wall as I entered the building:
"O'Justice, when expelled from other habitations make this thy dwelling place"
Justice did not dwell in the Boone County Courthouse during the Ryan Ferguson trial. As with many wrongful convictions, those who are most culpable for the perversions of justice hide in the shadows preferring to have their underlings speak for them. The saying is true that, "a good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat justice by evil means."
Ryan Ferguson will walk out of prison a free man. He will never be able to replace the 2,136 days taken from him. The real murderer of Kent Heitholt has spent every one of those days as a free man, enjoying a life he does not deserve.
Those who put Ryan in prison will find, "there is no flag large enough to cover the shame (of convicting) an innocent man."
Kathleen Zellner
3/8/2010
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